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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
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1937-1990
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38 cu. ft. (38 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 426
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The first NPG director, Charles Nagel, was appointed in 1964. Most of the records document the director's efforts to initiate programs to fulfil the second mission of the Gallery: to provide a research center for American biography, iconography, and history. To achieve this objective, Charles Nagel established the Catalogue of American Po...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of External Affairs
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1960-1990
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-166
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the activities of the National Portrait Gallery, especially its acquisitions, and relations between the National Portrait Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery Commission. The National Portrait Gallery Commission is an oversight body for the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include incomin...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of External Affairs
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1962-1997
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-167
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the semiannual meetings of the National Portrait Gallery Commission. The National Portrait Gallery Commission is an oversight body for the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include member lists, agendas, minutes, supporting documents, reports, acquisitions recommendations, memoranda, correspond...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of External Affairs
- Dates:
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1992-2010
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-227
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) Commission which is responsible for the promotion, development and utilization of the museum and as well as the acquisition of artwork. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, membership lists, commission votes, meeting minutes, acquisition information, ...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of External Affairs
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1964, 1981, 1994-2012
- Size:
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-228
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) Commission which is responsible for the promotion, development and utilization of the museum and as well as the acquisition of artwork. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, membership lists, commission votes, meeting agendas and minutes, acquisition ...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director
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2005-2006, 2010-2017
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-088
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records that document the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) Commission which is responsible for the promotion, development and utilization of the museum and as well as the acquisition of artwork. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, membership lists, commission votes, meeting minutes, acquisition information, ...
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Central Administrative File, Records
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1908-1974
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59 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (116 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 313
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The records pertain to the administration of David W. Scott, director, 1965-1968, Robert Tyler Davis, interim director, 1969, and Joshua C. Taylor, director, 1970- . Some records, most noticeably correspondence with Smithsonian Art Commission members, have been pulled up into the files from previous administrations. Also included are Smithson...
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of External Affairs
- Dates:
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1992-1997
- Size:
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 01-168
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials that document the activities and decisions of the National Portrait Gallery Commission. The National Portrait Gallery Commission is an oversight body for the National Portrait Gallery. Materials include press clippings and brochures.
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1892-1960
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22 cu. ft. (44 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 311
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the administration of William Henry Holmes, first Curator of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), 1907-1920, and Director of the Gallery, 1920-1932. To a lesser extent, it also documents the administration of Ruel P. Tolman, Acting Director of NGA, 1932-1937, and the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), 1937-1946, ...
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Fendrick Gallery
- Dates:
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1952-2001
- Size:
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106.4 Linear feet
0.008 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.fendgall
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The records of the Fendrick Gallery measure 106.4 linear feet and 0.008 GB and span the years 1952 to 2001. The bulk of the collection is comprised of artist's files that document the gallery's relations with and representation of over 300 contemporary artists and sculptors, including Robert Arneson, William Bailey, Daniel Brush, Wendell Castle, Robert Cottingham, James Drake, John Dreyfuss, Walter Dusenbury, Roger Essley, Helen Frankenthaler , Sam Gilliam, Jasper Johns, Raymond Kaskey, Claude and Francois Lalanne, Albert Paley, Joseph Raffael, Carol Summer, and numerous other artists. Also found are subject, exhibition, commission, administrative, and financial files, as well as files documenting the gallery's relationship with other museums and galleries.
